5 Fair empl.prac.cas. 623, 5 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 8450 Robert Rock v. Norfolk and Western Railway Company, a Corporation, United Transportation Union Local No. 974, Afl-Cio, an Unincorporated Association v. United Transportation Union Lodge No. 550, an Unincorporated Association, United Transportation Union, an Unincorporated Association, United Transportation Union Local No 974, Afl-Cio, an Unincorporated Association v. Norfolk and Western Railway Company, a Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
473 F.2d 1344 · 1973
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 1990 · most notably Liberles v. County of Cook (1983), Barnett v. W. T. Grant Co. (1975)
25 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Magna Oil Corp. v. Bateson · Richardson v. Hynson, Westcott & Dunning, Inc. · Robinson v. Lorillard Corp. · Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. v. Securities & Exchange Commission · Roaden v. Kentucky
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . give such brakemen any higher or broader rights than those enjoyed or granted to CT Yard brakemen, who had qualified for promotion to conductors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.